Hidden Gem - Best Lit Mags of 2025

You can send us your poetry, fictional works, non-fictional works such as personal and academic essays, articles, fun quizzes, pictures and/or art! We seek work in English and in Spanish (no translations).

Our focus is to promote emerging writers, continue supporting established writers, all with an emphasis on cultural perspectives.
We love publishing work by individuals from underrepresented groups in writing and artistic spheres (BIPOC, women, LGBT+, Latine).

Individuals from underrepresented groups in writing spheres (BIPOC, women, LGBT+, Latine) are strongly encouraged to submit their work.

Out of 4,291 votes, these lit mags came out on top in 2025 as the best lit mags you didn’t know about.

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Abundance Literary Magazine

Good news if you like to learn new things often.

Abundance Literary Magazine is pleased to introduce Abundance of Knowledge. It will be apart from our bi-anual volumes, and in these issues we will publish literary essays, book reviews, research papers*, and other academic writing on these areas.

If you have a literary essay that you passionately wrote last semester and don’t know what to do with it, despite being super proud of it, submit it to Abundance of Knowledge! We’d love to display it on our fridge (our website) for others to read.

The submissions are open year-round, with the first issue projected to be published in March 2026. Do you have academic writing for our fridge? Check our link to submit!

*non-scientific, as those must be peer reviewed

No eligibility requirements, but we encourage those from underrepresented groups in the writing spheres to submit. Abundance was created to uplift your voices.

Abundance of Knowledge

Our 4th volume is about horrors of/within/about the body. Think: grotesque, beauty gone wrong, commentary on the fear of physical changes, appearance pressures, revolutionary body changes, etc.

Poetry for vol. 4 Anatomy of Horror

Fiction for vol. 4 Anatomy of Horror

Our 4th volume is about horrors of/within/about the body. Think: grotesque, beauty gone wrong, possession, commentary on the fear of physical changes, appearance pressures, fused parts, revolutionary body changes, etc.

Flash Fiction for vol. 4 Anatomy of Horror

Our 4th volume is about horrors of/within/about the body. Think: grotesque, beauty gone wrong, possession, commentary on the fear of physical changes, appearance pressures, fused parts, revolutionary body changes, etc.<div><br></div><div>This call includes the subgenre opinion/commentary article. See guidelines for specific word count for that.</div>

Nonfiction for vol. 4 Anatomy of Horror

Our 4th volume is about horrors of/within/about the body. Think: grotesque, beauty gone wrong, possession, commentary on the fear of physical changes, appearance pressures, fused parts, revolutionary body changes, etc. <div>Since this is for art and the theme call is about body horror we need to specify: NO GORE for the sake of shock. Implied horror, shadows, lines, collage--all that works well to get a message to an audience.</div>

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